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RefCounts are dead.  Long live lazy copy-on-write.
- To: <mark>
 
- Subject: RefCounts are dead.  Long live lazy copy-on-write.
 
- From: Eric Dean Tribble <tribble>
 
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 89 20:56:47 PST
 
- Cc: <xanatech>
 
- In-reply-to: <MarkS.Miller'smessageofMon>,08 PST <8911131155.AA25749@xanadu>
 
Your suggestion strikes me as an interesting variant of a
copy-on-write implementation.  It covers making ImmuTables from either
MuTables or ImmuTables.  I don't think it handles making a MuTable
from an ImmuTable (or MuTable).  A good price for avoiding refCounts.
I'm happy.
dean